Museum of Russian Icons | MA

In Clinton, Massachusetts, the history of icon painting is alive and well at the Museum of Russian Icons. Informally affiliated with the Prosopon School of Iconology, based in Whitney Point, NY the museum also occassionally hosts art classes on Icon painting. The small museum was founded in 2006 as a non-profit educational institution by Massachusetts industrialist, Gordon B. Lankton. The collection includes more than 400 Russian icons, the largest collection of its kind in North America, and one of the largest private collections outside Russia. The collection spans six centuries, and includes important historical paintings dating from the earliest periods of icon “writing” to the present.